The awards should make a solid contribution toward
righting the internship imbalance, potentially adding 150
programs and 520 new internship positions over the three-year period, adds Jackie Tyson, the APA Education Directorate’s
associate executive director for administration and lead staff
person for the project. In the 2012 internship match, 22 percent
of 4,067 psychology doctoral students were not matched
at all, and nearly 20 percent were matched in unaccredited
internships, according to statistics from APPIC.

“It’s really exciting to be a part of an effort to promote
quality training for psychologists and to help more programs
gain APA accreditation,” Tyson says.